tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-211974510426729195.post6955044658530038017..comments2014-08-22T11:58:00.936-05:00Comments on ...from down in Lucky Town: A free market of idiotsAlex Bledsoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05805521718331603133noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-211974510426729195.post-37351028591244420492011-07-20T12:23:01.451-05:002011-07-20T12:23:01.451-05:00I&#39;m reminded of a YouTube video, oddly enough,...I&#39;m reminded of a YouTube video, oddly enough, where after mocking the BP oil spill, a message scrolled by. Something like, &quot;You hate big oil, but not enough to stop driving.&quot;<br /><br />As long as we make evil profitable, bad people will do bad things.<br /><br />At least one could argue that driving is essential to modern life. Purchasing trashy, gossip rags is not.<br /><br />(And the YouTube video I&#39;m refering to is <a href="www.youtube.com/watch?v=zt617zYAbng" rel="nofollow">The BP Oil Spill Re-Enacted By Cats in 1 Minute‏</a>)Stephanie M. Loréehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03512485557711771802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-211974510426729195.post-75376085088808181082011-07-20T10:58:34.659-05:002011-07-20T10:58:34.659-05:00I agree with what you say partly but a greater und...I agree with what you say partly but a greater understanding of how deep the issue goes into British culture comes with acknowledging the loyalty its people have to a certain specific tabloid or broadsheet newspaper, and have had that loyalty for years. <br /><br />This isn&#39;t about the impulse buying of a magazine through the check-out at a grocery store or on a newsstand, as you suggest here. It&#39;s about a household loyalty to a newspaper that has been delivered to its home very much like it is here in the US, every day. <br /><br />People don&#39;t tend to change their newspaper brand because of a sudden or even subtle change in content. For the most part it would go unnoticed until stories like this one.<br /><br />I&#39;m not disagreeing with what you say here at all, I&#39;m just more aware of how much deeper the cancer of cheap supposed journalism goes into my culture. <br /><br />I can&#39;t ever remember a time when The Daily Mirror wasn&#39;t read in our house. The Mirror is one of what the UK calls &#39;red-tops&#39;, ie. the name of the paper is in red on the top left on the front cover. News of the World is one such red-top, as is The Daily Star and The Sun. <br /><br />My dad sat in his chair reading The Daily Mirror for hours in the sixties - apparently he was partly dyslexic my mum says, and so a slow reader. It&#39;s mostly my only memory of him and it was a significant part of his daily life. We kids wouldn&#39;t be allowed to interrupt him when he was reading the paper. <br /><br />These days my mum gets it delivered pretty much for the crosswords and word puzzles, but she also glances through it too, and I&#39;m sure it&#39;s influenced the way she thinks and also talks to people when she&#39;s on the bus into town.<br /><br />This stuff is so insidiously rooted into the entire working class culture back where I live, that changes in its standards are ergo changes in the society it also supposedly represents.<br /><br />And let&#39;s not even go near the proud displaying of topless models on page three of The Sun. I mean, how archaic is that?widnesianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473842395306377345noreply@blogger.com